Samuel BeckettHarold Bloom Sixteen critical essays on the Elizabethan poet and his works. |
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... seen as in a perfect mirror , serenely , and in consistence with the rational power ; but if the mind be imperfect and ill trained , the vision is seen as in a broken mirror , with strange distortions and discrepancies , all the ...
... seen as in a perfect mirror , serenely , and in consistence with the rational power ; but if the mind be imperfect and ill trained , the vision is seen as in a broken mirror , with strange distortions and discrepancies , all the ...
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... seen in this latter role in the description of Mirabella's trial ( VI.viii.32ff . ) ; but the tapestries at the House of Busyrane and more importantly the Masque of Cupid there ( III.xii . 1ff . ) show him in this context as well . In ...
... seen in this latter role in the description of Mirabella's trial ( VI.viii.32ff . ) ; but the tapestries at the House of Busyrane and more importantly the Masque of Cupid there ( III.xii . 1ff . ) show him in this context as well . In ...
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... seen by the uncomfortable ruling pantheon as the chief source of danger . The poet's initial gesture in canto vii is to move higher up for a more panoramic and harmonious view , then to settle into the middle region of Christian pasto ...
... seen by the uncomfortable ruling pantheon as the chief source of danger . The poet's initial gesture in canto vii is to move higher up for a more panoramic and harmonious view , then to settle into the middle region of Christian pasto ...
Contents
The Structure of Allegory in Books I and II | 41 |
Mutability and the Theme | 57 |
The Marriage of the Thames | 73 |
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